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Martell

#7,493 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Martell has been given to 2,666 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #7,493 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1986, with 124 recorded.

Babies named Martell, 2025

1 in 301,000

Martell over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Martell: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Martell means

Martell is a given name.

The naming story behind Martell

Wikidata records Martell as a given name. The entity identifier is Q117474803, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,630 boys were recorded with the name Martell between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 124 in 1986; its best national rank was #814 in 1986.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,172 in 2020 to #7,493 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,648 in 2015 to #7,493 in 2025.

In the United States, 36 girls were recorded with the name Martell between 1915 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1983; its best national rank was #4,719 in 1915.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Martell?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,493
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Martell sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Martell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Martells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Martell was born before 1991 — so the typical Martell is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,517
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (866).

Is Martell rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−806
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,321
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,845
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.9%
Peak was 1986 (124)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#814
1986

Spellings of Martell

Martell is not the most common spelling — Darrell is, with 39.0% against Martell's 0.64%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Martell is used

Across 1910–2025, Martell was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 70,992 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 14,286
  2. 2Michigan1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Martell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Martell around the world

Where Martell ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Martell

People whose public names include Martell, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Martell by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,493
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,321
Best rank ever
#814
1986
Peak year
1986
124 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,630
Count in 2025
11

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,719
1915
Peak year
1983
6 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Martell

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MarkellMarcellMarvellMarquellMarzellMartrellMarshellMarquelMarcialMarquanMarloweMarrellMarshalMariusMarquezMarshawnMardellMarinoMarlowMarkeithMarquesMartelMartezMartino

Names with a curve like Martell

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Martell, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BrandinTyrelMychalJaymesTerellTavarisJustineCassidyMinhLamarcusJamellDemario

Sibling names for Martell

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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